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Getting started

Kokonut Network is a blockchain-based cooperative that connects Web3 communities to real syntropic farms. We partner with grassroots farmers, raise funds through a DAO, deploy farms using the Kokonut Framework, and distribute rewards perpetually to everyone in the network. Our model has no expiration date. Every governance token is backed 1:1 by a real coconut tree. When a tree ends its productive life, we replant it — the cooperative continues, and the community owns the upside. See the Executive Summary for the full picture.
Adelphi is Kokonut Network’s first live syntropic farm, located in Gonzalo, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. It is a women-led project founded by sisters Yanny and Neury Hernández, covering 15,725 m² and producing lettuce, passion fruit, coconut, Indian yam, and free-range eggs — alongside a native endangered species nursery. Adelphi was funded through Public Nouns Proposal #69 and serves as the live proof of concept for the entire Kokonut Framework. Real-time harvest records and MRV data are publicly available at hub.kokonut.network/projects/41. Read the full Adelphi story.
Syntropic farming is a regenerative agriculture methodology developed by Swiss-Brazilian farmer Ernst Götsch. It organizes farms into successional strata — ground cover, low canopy, medium canopy, and high canopy — with species selected to manage each other’s growth through natural competition and cooperation. Over time the system becomes self-regulating: no pesticides, no synthetic fertilizers, improving soil fertility with each cycle. It is the agricultural foundation for everything Kokonut builds. The reason the cooperative focuses on multi-strata crop mixes — short-cycle vegetables alongside medium-cycle fruits alongside long-cycle coconut trees — is that this is how syntropic systems are designed to work. See Why Syntropic Farming.
The Kokonut Framework is a modular trust layer that standardizes how syntropic farms are funded, operated, measured, and governed. It is the repeatable piece — the reason a second, third, or hundredth farm can slot into the Kokonut Network without reinventing the coordination logic. It comprises a 13-field Common Data Schema every farm must populate, four development phases, five regeneration principles, and eight forms of capital for impact measurement — all EAS-compatible and designed to produce verifiable, on-chain attestations. It is open source at wasalo/Kokonut-Public-Site.
Our current farms are in the Dominican Republic. Adelphi is located in Gonzalo, Sabana Grande de Boyá, Monte Plata. You can explore the land remotely via the 3D orthomap and species GeoNode before visiting. In-person visitors are authenticated using a blockchain wallet and issued a DAO Member or Guest Pass. Book a call to arrange a visit or connect with the team on the ground.
The Kokonut model has no expiration date by design. When coconut trees end their productive life — up to 20 years under optimal conditions — they are replanted, restarting the production cycle. The DAO treasury, governance structure, and framework replicate across new farms as the network grows. The roadmap includes expanding the farm network across the Dominican Republic, deploying the Kokonut Agentic Marketplace on Base to automate MRV and governance workflows, and broadening to additional chains — Celo for mobile-first community access, Arbitrum for agent operations, and Ethereum Mainnet for TradFi and RWA bridge. See the development phases for how each farm progresses.

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The DAO and tokens

A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is a community-led entity with no central authority. Smart contracts encode the rules and execute agreed-upon decisions — proposals, votes, and treasury disbursements — without any admin or trusted intermediary. The Kokonut DAO is the core vehicle for all fundraising, reward distribution, and governance decisions. It operates two instances: the Kokonut Moloch DAO (treasury and token governance on Gnosis Chain) and the Kokonut Guilds DAO (operational and contribution-weighted governance).
Kokonut has two soulbound (non-transferable) token types, each serving a different purpose: $vKKN — Voting Token: Minted when a new member tributes stablecoins to the DAO treasury. Each token is backed 1:1 by a real coconut tree. Grants full governance rights — 1 token equals 1 vote on all DAO proposals. Cannot be bought on the open market; it is minted via DAO proposal on tribute. Contract on Gnosis Chain.Loot Token: Awarded — via DAO proposal — to contributors, land-owners, Core Team members, and partners who add verifiable value to the ecosystem. Carries economic rights (a proportional claim on the treasury, redeemable via rage-quit) without governance voting rights. This is the bridge between the contribution-based Guilds and the token-based Moloch DAO — you can earn a real stake through work, without needing capital to tribute. Contract on Gnosis Chain.
No. Kokonut DAO members own the upside derived from projects the DAO decides to fund, as long as they hold their DAO tokens. Each governance token is backed 1:1 with a real coconut plant — you own the economic output of the trees, not the land itself. The DAO can vote to fund, expand, or redirect operations at any farm, but land ownership remains with the farm operators who partner with Kokonut Network.
All decisions are made via proposals that pass through three mandatory stages: a Drafting stage (minimum 5-day feedback window on Charmverse), an Active stage (5-day on-chain vote on DAOHaus, 1 $vKKN = 1 vote), and an Execution stage (action taken automatically after the vote passes). DAO members hold 99.99% of all voting power. The Core Team holds 0%. No single person or entity can move treasury funds without a passed proposal. Read the full Governance Framework for quorum parameters, retention thresholds, and the proposal template.
No one. The DAO has no admins and no trusted intermediaries. All decisions are made via proposals executed directly against the treasury or vaults using smart contracts. The main treasury is a rage-quit-enabled SAFE wallet on Gnosis Chain with the Moloch DAO as the sole signatory. No individual — including the Core Team — can move funds without a passed DAO proposal.
The minimum is 1 $vKKN to vote on proposals and sponsor proposals to the active voting stage. Members with fewer tokens still hold proportional economic rights and can rage-quit with their share of the treasury at any time. Tokens are not transferable and cannot be purchased on the open market — they are minted via DAO proposal when you tribute stablecoins to the treasury.
All treasury inflows and outflows are publicly visible on Gnosis Chain. You can visualize and track them at the Kokonut DAO vaults on DAOHaus. For direct on-chain queries, all four contracts are verified on Gnosisscan — see the Kokonut Moloch DAO page for contract addresses, ABI references, and direct RPC query examples.

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Contributing to the network

There are three paths, depending on your background and goals: Contribute through the Guilds — no capital required. The Kokonut Guilds DAO is organized into six domain-specific bodies (Technology, Impact, Communications, Governance, Finance, and Community & Partnerships). Complete open bounties, submit MRV data, author proposals, or improve documentation to earn Guild Points. Significant contributions earn Loot tokens via DAO proposal — a real stake in the ecosystem without a capital tribute.Become a DAO member — tribute stablecoins to the Kokonut DAO on Gnosis Chain via DAOHaus. A DAO proposal is submitted, token holders vote, and if approved your $vKKN tokens are minted. From there you can vote on farm funding, governance changes, and bounty programs.Build on the network — if you’re a developer, the Build with Kokonut guide covers GitHub repos, deployed contracts, Framework data primitives, and how to deploy AI agents to the Kokonut Agentic Marketplace.Book a call with the Core Team to find the right entry point for your situation.
Yes — this is the Guild path. The Kokonut Guilds DAO is contribution-weighted, not token-weighted. You earn influence through verifiable work, not capital. Guild Points accumulate from completed bounties, MRV submissions, authored proposals, and peer endorsements. Once you cross a Guild’s minimum point threshold you become an active member with voting rights on Guild-internal decisions. Significant Guild contributions are eligible for Loot token awards — carrying economic rights without requiring a tribute. Open bounties are listed in the Charmverse workspace.
Yes — the Kokonut Agentic Marketplace is being built on Base for exactly this purpose. AI agents can register with an ERC-8004 on-chain identity, list services priced in USDC, and receive autonomous payments via the x402 micropayment protocol — without any human in the payment loop. Farm-specific agent tasks include: MRV data reporting (calculating NDVI, NDRE, MSAVI from satellite imagery and submitting to the Farm Registry), harvest forecasting, impact scoring, grant drafting, and cross-farm anomaly detection. The Kokonut × AI Agents page covers the full architecture — identity, runtime, payments, and how to build your first agent.

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Technical and operational

Gnosis Chain (live) — the Kokonut Moloch DAO is deployed and operational on Gnosis Chain (Chain ID: 100). All governance contracts, the SAFE treasury, and the $vKKN and Loot tokens live here. Gnosis Chain is an EVM-compatible network with energy consumption comparable to two US households — see below for the full environmental comparison. Base (in development) — the Kokonut Agentic Marketplace is being built on Base (Chain ID: 8453), an Ethereum L2. Agent identity (ERC-8004), USDC payment routing, escrow, and EAS reputation records will deploy here.Planned — Celo (for mobile-first community access), Arbitrum (for high-frequency agent operations), and Ethereum Mainnet (for TradFi bridge and RWA primitives).
Kokonut DAO is unaffected by crypto market volatility because the treasury only accepts stablecoins as tribute. The value of the treasury does not fluctuate with ETH, BTC, or GNO — it is denominated in stablecoins and backed by the productive output of real agricultural land. Each $vKKN token is backed 1:1 by a real coconut tree. The tree continues to produce coconuts regardless of what the crypto market does. If a member wishes to exit, rage-quit returns their proportional stablecoin share from the treasury.
It depends entirely on which blockchain you use. The Kokonut DAO operates on Gnosis Chain, a proof-of-stake network with dramatically lower energy consumption than proof-of-work chains.
Gnosis Chain consumes the same amount of energy as approximately two US households. By comparison, Visa uses the equivalent of ~42,000 family homes to operate its network each year.
Beyond energy, the farms themselves are net carbon-positive — regenerative agriculture under the Kokonut Framework sequesters an estimated 0.4–1.2 metric tons of CO₂e per acre per year. Every token minted corresponds to a tree that is actively removing carbon from the atmosphere. See Why Syntropic Farming for the full methodology.
Don’t see your question here? Drop into the Discord, post on Charmverse, or book a call with the Core Team directly.